On 17th November 2025 Kristin Surak (Associate Professor at the London School of Economics) will give a talk on her book “The Golden Passport” within the Global Migration Lecture. 

This Global Migration Lecture is a cooperation event of InZentIM, CGCR and GRK2951.

Host chair Andreas Niederberger (Universität Duisburg-Essen) leads a session titled "The Ambivalences of Intercultural Transitions: How Neocolonialism, Neoliberalism and Autocracy Undermine Democracy" at the 42nd DGS Congress in Duisburg‑Essen.

Host chairs Georg Datler and Sigrid Quack (both from the University of Duisburg‑Essen) lead an interdisciplinary panel at the 42nd DGS Congress in Duisburg‑Essen, exploring the tensions between democratic participation and ecological sustainability.

On 30 June and 1 July, the international conference ‘What's the Problem with Property in Democracy?’ will take place at the Centre for Global Cooperation Research in Duisburg. The recent debate on the difficulties that property and property relations pose for democracies will be analysed and perspectives for a different relationship between democracy and property will be discussed. In particular, the distribution of property between the Global North and Global South and its effects on democratic governance will be discussed. The conference is part of the Fellow Group ‘Owning Democracy’ under the direction of Andreas Niederberger.

If you have any questions, please contact us at events-cgcr@uni-due.de.

On Thursday 26 June at 2:15 pm, Prof. Jonathan Warren (University of Washington/Seattle) will give a lecture on ‘Critical Theory and Race Evasiveness’ in the library hall on the Essen campus. He will explore the question of why racism was barely addressed in the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and discuss the resulting perspectives for education and anti-racism. The lecture is part of the Fellow Group ‘Owning Democracy’ at the CGCR and will be commented on by Samira Fifowski and Nicolle Pfaff.

If you have any questions, please contact us at events-cgcr@uni-due.de

lecture given by Peggy Levitt

Fellow Lecture & Discussion by and with Urs Lindner on the topic: 'The Materiality of Memory: Inquiries and Prospects'.

Urs Lindner has been a Fellow at the CGCR since September and is pursuing the research project 'Memory materialism: affects, artefacts, assemblages'.

On January 10, the “Re.Wri.T” workshop invites PhD students, early career academics, and advanced MA students to a day of exchange. Organized with the support of CGCR, the event provides a space to discuss topics such as academic identity, writing a compelling bio, crafting your CV, navigating funding opportunities, using AI, and managing research questions. The day will conclude with a discussion on work-life balance, including challenges in academia and relationships within the academic community.

Contact: elena.furlanetto@uni-due.de

Online Podiumsdiskussion

Ausgewiesene Expertinnen und Experten aus Forschung und Politikberatung diskutieren diese kontroversen Themenkomplexe und greifen Fragen der Teilnehmenden auf.

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Aurora Lecture Summer 2024

Adressed at students from all disciplines and at all levels, the presentations in this lecture series illustrate how multi-faceted the concept of sustainability really is – touching issues from energy sources to literary prizes and from economic politics to climate activism. 

Please register here.

Fourth Annual International Seminar in Historical Refugee Studies. 3 - 6 July 2024 at Universität Tübingen. Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Jan C. Jansen (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen). Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen in cooperation with KHK/Centre for Global Cooperation Research, German Historical Institute Washington and American Historical Association.

This exhibition is based on the insight that images of (forced) migration are never merely representations, but rather products of specific contexts and intentions. Images migrate along medial, infrastructural, and global paths; they are fed into databases and archives in order to be retrieved and circulated again and again.

Cubus Kunsthalle, Duisburg